Editing ETOPS (section)

=== Early ETOPS ===
[[File:Airbus A300B2-103 - Airbus Industrie.jpg|thumb|The [[Airbus A300B4]] became the first ETOPS-compliant aircraft, in 1977<ref>{{cite web |title=Technology leaders (1977–1979) |url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210425203402/www.airbus.com/company/history/aircraft-history/1977-1979.html |work= Aircraft History |publisher=Airbus}}</ref>]]
[[Airbus A300]] twinjets, the first twin-engine wide-body aircraft, had been flying across the North Atlantic, the Bay of Bengal, and the Indian Ocean under a 90-minute ICAO rule since 1976.<ref name=AirbusETOPS/>{{rp|p=p.14}}

When the [[Federal Aviation Administration|FAA]] director [[J. Lynn Helms]] in 1980 was approached about the possibility of an exemption, his response was "It'll be a cold day in hell before I let twins fly long haul, overwater routes."<ref name="TTT767">{{cite web|title=The Boeing 767 and the Birth of ETOPS|url=http://www.tailsthroughtime.com/2015/12/the-boeing-767-and-birth-of-etops.html|website=Tails though Time|access-date=17 February 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170811070418/http://www.tailsthroughtime.com/2015/12/the-boeing-767-and-birth-of-etops.html|archive-date=August 11, 2017}}</ref><ref name=JALC2013>{{cite journal|last1=DeSantis|first1=J. Angelo|title=Engines Turn or Passengers Swim: A Case Study of How ETOPS Improved Safety and Economics in Aviation|journal=[[Journal of Air Law & Commerce]]|volume=77 |issue=2013 |page=20 |url=http://scholar.smu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1305&context=jalc |year=2013}}</ref> The [[Boeing 767-200ER]] entered service in 1984.

In 1985, the FAA increased the ETOPS to 120 minutes at the single-engine cruise speed.<ref name=AirbusETOPS/>{{rp|p=p.12}} [[Trans World Airlines]] operated the first 120-minute ETOPS (ETOPS-120) service on February 1, 1985, with a [[Boeing 767]]-200 from Boston to Paris. The 767 burned {{cvt|7,000|lb|t}} less fuel per hour than a [[Lockheed L-1011 TriStar]] on the same route, prompting TWA to spend $2.6 million on each 767 they owned to retrofit them to ETOPS-120 specs.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.gcmap.com/featured/20200201 |title= Featured Map: First ETOPS-120 Revenue Flight |date= 1 February 2020 |author= Karl L. Swartz |website= The Great Circle Mapper }}</ref>
It was followed by [[Singapore Airlines]] in June with an [[Airbus A310]].
In April 1986, [[Pan Am]] inaugurated transatlantic revenue service using A310s, and within five years Airbus ETOPS operators numbered more than 20.<ref name=AirbusETOPS/>{{rp|p=p.14}}